Chirag is youngest MP from Bihar
PATNA: Actor-turned-politician Chirag Paswan has also become the youngest of the 40 MPs to enter the 16th Lok Sabha from Bihar. Paswan junior is 32, while the oldest parliamentarian from the state to be re-elected on a BJP ticket is 77-year-old Hukumdeo Narayan Yadav.
Despite the generational gap, the two have a couple of things in common. First, they both belong to the same electoral formation — National Democratic Alliance and also figure in the list of 16 graduates to have won this time.
While the LJP political heir apparent, Chirag is an engineering graduate, the down-to-earth Hukumdeo is a graduate and an agriculturist. Other MPs on the younger side, include Satish Chandra Dubey, 39, the BJP nominee to have won the Valmikinagar seat, Ranjeet Ranjan, 41, who won from Supaul on a Congress ticket, Sushil Kumar Singh, 48, the sitting MP and JD-U rebel from Aurangabad to get re-elected on a BJP ticket and Sanjay Jaiswal, 49, of the BJP, who retained West Champaran seat quite convincingly. But if a number of members to the 16 Lok Sabha from the state are on the younger side, there is a fair sprinkling of grey-haired lawmakers who have either got re-elected or made it to the parliament.
Nawada MP Bhola Singh, who shifted to Begusarai this time, is the second oldest in the lot, followed by RJD member Taslimuddin,72, Ram Vilas Pasan (LJP), Shatrughan Sinha (BJP) and Asrarul Haque (Congress), all in the same age bracket of 67 years.
While Satish Chandra Dubey (BJP) and Ramchandra Pasawan (LJP) have completed matric-level education, Veena Devi (LJP) and Hari Manjhi(BJP) have done their studies up to ninth and eighth class.